அன்பே இது மழை காலம்..

Things aren't going particularly well for the past two days, be it 'BOMB'ay or 'cha'nnai. I think I should consider myself lucky not to have ventured out yesterday or the day before. But atleast I got to learn the whats and hows around the city, thanks to the brilliant narrations of the 'pakkathu veetu' maamas and backside flat AIRs, guess we come across lots of AIRs, FMs etc..across various levels in our life..
Anyhow coming to the subj matter....
But things could not have got any better atleast for our fellow 'Namba ooru Auto Kaarans', where their money fleecing acts turned out to become heroic acts, though some of them are worthwhile hitting the columns in the popular dailies, but they failed short due to the Makkana Mujahudeen (or Lakshar-E-Dieba or Al-Quitda?) who stole the show fairly away as India stole the show in the Ongoing(onWent?) series.
Too bad I could not continue watching the series, when I had identified a way out of the Gavascaromania...yeah, thanks to DD-Doordarshan, the hindi version of cricket. I could not understand much of what was being said except for the occassional 'Ballebaaz' and the Gendhbaaz.
But indeed even that required considerable effort from my part...
Lemme try to explain fellow maams, machis, maapus and thalis in the tail end of our peninsula..
I know its a little tricky, Ballebaaz is..Yes i know it makes us consider him a bowler, as i did...but unfortunately the etymology suggests otherwise..Ballebaaz though should originally mean a Bowler unfortunately gets spun by the Doosra of harbhajan to land as a batsman for the ppl here..Just imagine the flight from punjab to TN...it sure does help doosra..
Okay any how when Ballebaaz settles for a batsman, I think you can make out what a Gendhbaaz could be...Thus my flair for cricket helped me grow a Hindi vernacular too...atleast makes me feel a little better whenever i pen hindi to be one of the languages I know in my resume..
okay..this time to again to the subj matter...
I dont want to play spoilsport or Pietersen..Well, come on, if someone could blame the lights, the sight screen, the dew factor, the duckworth lewis, the umpires, the pollution, the batting order(, the POORI Masala...okay..... CHILL) then You think he is going to settle down and play the rest of the series??? after the TAJ and the Trident Ollapaarai attacks?(I wish there are ppl as naive as i am). what can i say about that fellow now...(five letter word... It starts with L ends with Y..and Yuck..I am not giving any clues..try the hangman to the right mebbe it could atleast now serve the purpose why i have added such google gizmos. I dont like to call them gadgets..makes it feel very technical and instrumental..)

Now getting back to the Auto Kaaran heroics and the torrential tormentor...(I am being threatened to get back to the topic by the lightnings, helped by the fading and fluctuations of power, thanks to TNEB, Tamil Nadu Ezhuchavayanaakara board)..
We had power failure since 8'0 clock yesterday morning, and got back power long enough to recharge the mobiles and emergency lamps, and quick look at the headlines and as usual the TNEB thalaivars proved their mettle..Ever reminding who are the ppl in POWER. Again they have bestowed us with power long enuf for me to Mokka pottafy, I shoud consider myself lucky(look above, answer to the above question).
Somehow my dad got back from hip dip water and boated across water in an auto(auto cum share auto each spending about 200 each) to travel 2 km stretch...Great season for the auto fellas..but thanks to them he could sail after his worthwhile ferry trip in 'BOMB'ay trip at the Gateway of India which has now found another reason to attract media ppl and also the terrorist.. :(



DISCLAIMER: The name Deepak in the video footage has nothing to do with me.

Finally after long hours of sitting and doing nothing I was sent out for milk by my mom, she said she would award me with chappathi if I get back with a packet of milk.(Dont ask me how milk is related to chapathi..) I never took that seriously as i know only this kind of emphasis made the roster of grocery items straight into my brain, a highway that had formed naturally, for this reason i would call it a neuronatural highway NH1..As usual I went about cursing and blaming things of no importance and the rain (atleast for once rain has worked my way)..
But she was not going to acquiesce and I set about for our beloved AAvin paal.
I did not allow myself get down when I was denied paal by our Naadar kadai or the Naadar kadai's annan kadai...There was no paal even in the biggest grocery shop in our area..I later realised the greatest joke today evening is somebody walking to a shop and asking for MILK..



DISCLAIMER: The aavin vandi shown in the video footage is a different aavin vandi, I am in no way responsible for this mess..

Seems the flooded roads have prevented the milk distribution in the city...Only one thing changed after that...ya..you probably guessed right..I found better reasons to curse and swear...NISHA puyal ..NISHA puyal...my beloved trees in Ramasamy st have gone uproot..bohooo.. :(
Enna koduma sir idhu???

Finally I got to a nayar kaadai where i learnt theres been no milk distribution and also milk got superbly fermented due to the power failure..TNEBBBBBB...
Call it whateva, i got to a shop resembling a beehive except for the honey..It was milk, MILK, YEssss..but it was not AAVIN..It was THIRUMALA...what mala?? ?Whatever..I had promised to get back with milk..and I will settle for thirumala..
Fortunately i could see AROKYA..yeah..even better. I finally kept my fingers on MY PRECIOUS..But the lady was sharp to anwswer 15 Rs..I with a feigned smile could only manage to say half wittingly that it was a half litre packet, only to realize i was witless..you want milk thambi give pipteen rupees and take..or else no paal today or tomorrow...She was true, there were lot others too, she certainly had the upper hand...curse...

Okay anyhow I got MY PRECIOUS...Only to get drenched again by the intermittent rainfall..
BUT have confirmed a chappathi for this weekend.
;D